TechSmith Camtasia 2024: The Essentials Courseware (Camtasia2024)

“TechSmith Camtasia 2024: The Essentials” is a hands-on, step-by-step workbook that teaches you the essential Camtasia version 2024 skills you need to quickly get up and running with this powerful eLearning development tool.

Working through real-world, hands-on activities, you will create eLearning projects from scratch, edit existing Camtasia projects, and leverage existing PowerPoint presentations as Camtasia eLearning projects.

Use Camtasia’s powerful screen recorder to create software video demonstrations like a professional.

Add animations, record and edit voiceover audio, add graphics, background music, and text annotations.

Learn how to add closed captions, quizzes and create a project template.

Create custom animations and add stunning visual effects using Corner Pin Mode.

Export finished Camtasia projects so learners can access your training using desktop computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Prepare and export projects so they report results to a Learning Management System. Learn to export content directly to YouTube, Screencast, and more.

Publisher: IconLogic, Inc.

Benefits

This book features:

All of the Camtasia projects, images, audio files, videos, and other assets needed to get started*
Dozens of step-by-step, hands-on activities
Confidence Checks to challenge your new skills
Hundreds of supporting screenshots

*The TechSmith Camtasia software does not come with this book. You must subscribe to the software or download a free trial at www.techsmith.com.

Outline

Preface
1. Planning eLearning lessons
2. eLearning development phases
3. Camtasia production times (level of effort)
4. Project size and display resolution
5. Design best practices
6. Fonts and eLearning
Exploring Camtasia
1. The Camtasia interface
2. Explore a completed project
3. The media bin and library
  1. Explore the media bin and library
4. The canvas and timeline
  1. Use the canvas to preview a project
  2. Use the canvas edit and pan modes
5. Reorganize the tools
  1. Reorder the tools on the tools panel
Recording Videos
1. Rehearsals
2. Rehearse a script
3. Recording screen actions
4. Specify a PC recording screen and size
5. Create a software video demo on the PC
  1. Recording confidence check (PC)
6. Set screen recording options on the Mac
7. Specify a Mac recording screen and size
8. Create a software video demo on the Mac
  1. Recording confidence check (Mac)
Adding Media
1. New projects and adding videos
2. Create a project and edit project settings
3. Import a video into the media bin
4. Add media to the timeline
  1. Video confidence check
5. Adding images
6. Import images to the media bin
  1. Timeline confidence check
7. Multi-track projects
8. Add a track
9. Edit media properties
10. Cursor effects
  1. Add cursor effects
    1. Cursor effects confidence check
  2. Modifying the cursor path and size
  3. Smooth the cursor path
  4. Edit the cursor path
    1. Cursor paths confidence check
  5. Change the cursor appearance and size
Groups, Annotations, and Animation
1. Groups
  1. Create a group
2. Annotations
  1. Add a callout
3. Themes
  1. Apply and create themes
4. Apply image color to callout text
  1. Callouts confidence check
5. Behaviors
  1. Add a behavior to a callout
    1. Behaviors confidence check
6. Transitions
  1. Add a transition to a group
  2. Modify transition timing
    1. Transitions confidence check
7. Custom animation
  1. Create an animation
    1. Animation confidence check
8. Corner pin mode
  1. Use corner pin mode
    1. Corner pin mode confidence check
Audio
1. Audio media
  1. Add music from the library
    1. Library audio confidence check
  2. Import music
  3. Fade audio
    1. Fading confidence check
  4. Voice narration
    1. Record voice narration
  5. Splitting media
    1. Split audio media
      1. Audio timing confidence check
  6. Audio editing
  7. Rename tracks
  8. Silence audio, delete, and ripple delete
    1. Audio editing confidence check
Exporting
1. Video and web output
  1. Export a video on the Mac
  2. Export a Mac project as a website
  3. Export a video on Windows
  4. Export a Windows project as a website
  5. Add a watermark to Windows projects
  6. Export to YouTube
    1. Sharing projects confidence check
2. Camtasia Rev
  1. Record screen actions with Rev
    1. Rev confidence check
Extending, Zooming, and Hotspots
1. Extending
  1. Extend a video frame
2. Zoom animations
  1. Add a Zoom-n-Pan animation on the PC
  2. Add a zoom animation on the Mac
3. Markers
  1. Add a timeline marker
    1. Markers and TOC confidence check
4. Hotspots
  1. Add an interactive hotspot
    1. Interactive hotspot confidence check
Quizzes and Reporting Results
1. Quizzes
  1. Add a quiz to a project
  2. Add a multiple choice question
  3. Add a fill in the blank question
    1. Quiz confidence check
2. Reporting quiz results
  1. Create a content package on the PC
  2. Create a content package on the Mac
PowerPoint, Captions, and Templates
1. PowerPoint to Camtasia
  1. Record PowerPoint on the PC
  2. Import a PowerPoint presentation
2. Closed captions
  1. Manually create PC closed captions
  2. Control PC caption timing
    1. PC captions confidence check
  3. Use speech-to-text to create captions
  4. Import captions on the PC
  5. Create Mac closed captions
  6. Control Mac caption timing
    1. Mac captions confidence check
  7. Import captions on the Mac
  8. Create dynamic captions
3. Templates
  1. Create and use a template

Required Prerequisites

Basic computer skills.

License

Length: 1 day | $21.99 per copy

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